modules.md

Most Wanted Modules

These are the most-wanted pure Perl 6 modules (as opposed to native library bindings). These may be direct ports of Perl 5 libraries, but that is not necessarily the case.

Algorithms

• Diff (WIP: Algorithm::Diff, Text::Diff)
• Levenshtein (WIP: Text::Levenshtein)

Configuration

• INI (WIP: Config::INI)
• GitLike
• Netrc

Cryptography and security

• Digest (unified interface) (WIP: Digest)
  • CRC32 (WIP: String::CRC32)
  • MD5 (WIP: Digest::MD5)
  • SHA* (WIP: Digest::SHA256, Digest)
  • RC4 (WIP: Crypt::RC4)
• Crypto
  • GPG
  • Block cyphers
    • DES
    • AES (WIP:OpenSSL::CryptoTools)
    • Blowfish
    • Twofish
  • Full set of block cypher modes
• RNG
  • MT (Mersenne Twister) (WIP: Math::Random)
  • TrulyRandom (portable access to OS-provided truly random sources)

Data formats

• Archives
  • Tar (WIP: Archive::Tar)
  • ZIP (WIP: File::Zip, Archive::SimpleZip)
• Delimited Text
  • CSV (WIP: Text::CSV), CSV::Parser
  • TSV CSV::Parser #this works with TSV
• Textual interchange of structured data
  • XML
    • parse
      • (WIP: XML::Parser::Tiny)
      • (HTML::Parser::XML)
    • emit (WIP: XML::Writer)
    • full (WIP: XML)
  • YAML (WIP: YAML)
  • LDIF
    • Net::LDAP port
• Binary interchange of structured data
  • BSON (WIP: BSON)
• Web markup
  • HTML (HTML::Parser::XML)
  • CSS
    • minimal (OPEN: CSS::Tiny)
    • parse
      • (WIP: CSS::Grammar)
    • emit
      • (WIP: CSS::Writer)
  • SVG (WIP: SVG)
• Documents
  • Pod::* (some functionality handled internally, but lots to fill in)
    • perldoc (WIP: p6doc)
    • Pod::To::HTML (WIP: Pod::To::HTML)
    • HTML documentation generator like htmlify.p6
  • Markdown (WIP: Text::Markdown)
  • PDF (WIP: PDF-Tools) (WIP: PDF::Grammar)
• File metadata
  • Image::Exiftool
  • MP3 tags (as native bindings to taglib, WIP: Audio::Taglib::Simple)
• Email
  • Email::Simple (WIP: Email::Simple)
  • MIME (WIP: Email::MIME)
    • MIME::Types (WIP: MIME::Types)
  • Base64 (WIP: MIME::Base64, Enc::MIME::Base64)
  • QuotedPrint (WIP: MIME::QuotedPrint)
• XML-based formats
  • RSS/Atom
  • Sitemap-XML (WIP: Sitemap::XML::Parser)

Data processing

• Data::GUID (WIP: UUID)
• Data::Visito
• Deep::Clone

Databases

• DBI (WIP: DBIish -- for drivers see native bindings)
• DBM?
• NoSQL
  • MongoDB (WIP: MongoDB)
  • Memcached (WIP: Cache::Memcached)
  • CouchDB (WIP: Sofa)
• CHI, Cache::Cache, or similar
• LDAP
  • Net::LDAP port?

Development

• Corelist
• Ecosystem (WIP: panda)
  • File::ShareDir
  • Pod::Cpandoc
  • CPAN::Mini equivalent?
  • App::cpanoutdated (equivalent for panda)
• App::Grindperl
• Benchmarking (WIP: Benchmark)
• Debugging (WIP: Rakudo::Debugger)
  • Grammars (WIP: Grammar::Debugger)
  • Carp::REPL
  • Devel::FindRef
  • Devel::PartialDump
• Tracing
  • Devel::Trace
  • Devel::STDERR::Indent
• Profiling
  • Grammars (WIP: Grammar::Profiler::Simple)
  • Devel::NYTProf?
• Tidying
  • Perl::Tidy
  • Code::TidyAll
• Editor/IDE interfaces
  • Proc::InvokeEditor
  • Vi::QuickFix?
• Project lifecycle
  • Dist::Zilla
  • CPAN::Uploader
• License management
  • Software::License/App::Software::License (WIP)
• Source management
  • Git::Wrapper (WIP)
• Deployment
  • Carton
  • cpanfile

Filesystems

• File::Find (WIP: File-Tools)
• File::Spec (WIP: File::Spec)
• File::pushd

i18n and NLP

Internationalization and Natural Language Processing

• App::Uni
• Unicode::Collate?
• Unicode::UCD?
• Unicode::Tussle?
• Unicode::LineBreak?
• Encodings/charsets other than builtin UTF-8/Unicode
• Maketext
• Locales? (WIP: CLDR::List)
• Standard codes:
  • country (WIP: Locale::US)
  • currency
  • language
  • script
• Lingua::* (WIP: Lingua::EN::Syllable, Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinal, Lingua::EN::Sentence, Lingua::Number)
• Lingua::Stem::*

IPC

• IPC::Cmd
• App::Whiff
• IO::Capture (WIP: IO::Capture::Simple)
• DBus via sd-bus
• Device::SerialPort

Logging

• pluggable logging
  • Windows logging
  • file/handle

Networking

• URI (WIP: URI)
• Email
  • POP3 (WIP: Net::POP3)
  • IMAP (WIP: Net::IMAP)
  • SMTP (WIP: Net::SMTP)
  • Email::Sender
  • Email::Valid (WIP: Email::Valid)
• HTTP
  • LWP or modern equivalent (Mojo::*?) (WIP: HTTP::UserAgent)
    • LWP::Simple (WIP: LWP::Simple)
    • HTTP::Client (WIP: HTTP::Client)
    • Curl (WIP: Net::Curl)
  • PSGI (WIP: HTTP::Easy, HTTP::Server::Simple)
  • Misc
    • Status (WIP: HTTP::Status)
  • Plack/Task::Plack (WIP: Crust)
  • Mechanize
  • Selenium (WIP: Selenium::WebDriver)
  • RobotUA?
• RPC
  • JSON-RPC (WIP: JSON::RPC)
  • SOAP
  • XML-RPC?
• IRC
  • IRC::Utils (WIP: IRC::Utils)
  • Net::IRC::Bot (WIP: Net::IRC::Bot)
  • IRC::Client (WIP: IRC::Client)
• Other protocols
  • FTP (WIP: Net::Ftp)
  • NNTP
  • Ping
  • Telnet
• Internet services
  • Net::GitHub::V3
  • App::ph
• Security
  • Mozilla::CA

Numerical

• Geo::Ellipsoid (WIP: Geo::Ellipsoid)
• Math::Trig (other than functions now in the Perl 6 core) (WIP: Math::Trig)

Text processing

• Templating
  • Any text
    • TT (WIP: Template6)
    • Mojo::Template (WIP: Template::Mojo)
  • HTML (WIP: HTML::Template)
• Specialized tasks
  • Text::Wrap/Text::Tabs (WIP: Text-Tabs-Wrap)
  • Text::Abbrev (WIP: Text::Abbrev)
• Regex/Grammar utilities
  • Regexp::Common

Testing

• Smoking and reporting
  • Test::Reporter
  • CPANTS
• Harnesses
  • TAP::Parser
  • Test::Harness (WIP: Test::Harness)
  • App::Prove
  • App::ForkProve
  • Test::Aggregate?
• Test output
  • Test::Differences
  • Test::Deep
  • Test::Pretty?
• Completeness
  • Code coverage
  • Pod coverage (WIP: POD::Coverage)
• Specific tests
  • Test::Requires
  • Test::Spelling
  • Test::NoTabs
  • Test::Number::Delta
• Simulation
  • Test::Without::Module
  • Test::Mock (WIP: Test::Mock)

Unix

• IO::Select (WIP: IO::Select)
• IO::Pty/IO::Pty::Easy
• open2/open3
• shared mem
• Fcntl
• POSIX
• User::pwent (WIP: System::Passwd)
• Daemonize

User interfaces

• Command line
  • IO::Prompter (WIP: IO::Prompter)
  • Term::ProgressBar (WIP: Term::ProgressBar)
  • Term::UI?
• Terminal
  • Term::Cap (WIP: Term::Cap)
  • Term::Complete
  • Term::ReadLine
  • App::Ttyrec?
  • App::Termcast?
  • Term::KBD
• Plotting/Charting/Graphing
  • SVG::Plot (WIP: SVG::Plot)
  • Chart::Clicker
• GUI
  • WxWidgets

Utilities

• ExtUtils::Command or Shell::Command (WIP: File-Tools)
• App::Ack
• Email::Filter